DEJ 
a light yellow colour, which haga a healthy but deficient 
fecretion of bile. Healthy the human fubje&, i 
nerally of a dee eh ae Sowa eae a 
ines a a large 
eorcentrated in t 
and quantity 
which ‘the liver excretes, may in eee be al- 
cone 
The colour of the alvine excretions in thefe difordered 
nciple, as une 
cece, ela hee to be confidcred. 
When the oat is coloured, and this colour is not altered by 
digeftion, it will, of courfe, appear in the foeces; hence if 
it fhould be th-ught defirable to know accurately the ftate 
of the bivary (on, it would be right to pa patients 
to a diet thar is not likely to colour the In acute 
difeafes, however, as little or no food is olen. this confis 
alfo be remarked, that the 
c 
alteration of their colour no ceendeavoin, therefore, to 
afcertain whether the liver is aa orn it 
by obferving the colour 
uires a ce besa * 
becomes what we ac eet aa icece 
foeces aol fuffer ane ieee fition out a the body 
although they often remain in thebowels, 
on 
which ammonia would neutralize. The inference, ae cae 
naturaily arifes, that this agency of the large inteftines ma 
be defigned, among other purpofes, fo to modify the refidue 
revent it from undergoing 
mical changes, aa might be ftimuiatisg 
ta the containing organs, a8 well a8 injurious to the general 
DET! 
health. In. by ee étly healthy ftate of the a aN organs, 
- decom 
proba as mica pofition, even of the 
take 8 nce 5 yet 
of a fecretio Choa their i ‘ing Seabeus, ecretion 
of courfe will be deranged by a difordered and eetiay ftate 
of the organs, and a correfponding derangement cecal 
procefs mit be — toenfue. See Abernethy, Surgical 
Obfervations, vol. i 
Hamilton, bowen feems to be of opinion, that the 
fozces undergo a change, when long detained in the inteltines, 
which this change of colour and f{mell indicates, an attri 
butes much to the ftate of conitipation or accum mulation of 
eae in the bowels, which this morbid condition of the dee 
ng accompanies. Elence he confiders dark and feetid ex- 
i from the bowels as indicating the neceflity of purga. 
tive medicines ; which experience has fhewn to be io 
under fuch ecumiace. whether in nervous, febrile, 
othcr complaints. See Obfervations on Purgative Medi- 
cines. 
The neceffity of removing thefe an foeces by cathartics, 
which alfo ftimulate the bowels, and the adjoining ag 
the liver, and pancreas, is the inference likewife dra n by 
Mr. Abernethy, from his view of the fubje 
Phe digeftive organs are peculiarly liable to derangement 
in children, fo that every difeafe in them, whether in the 
teeth, the lungs, or elfewhere, is accompanied with a dif. 
charge of u unhealthy ftools, and laxatives are therefore 
aaa auxiliaries in the cure of the major.ty of their com« 
P DEJECTO RIA, denote purging medic ines 
wie Factss ne A in ncie Geography »@ pros 
montory more commonly called from he Gree reas 
pe ae on the ae of Phenicia, sae ia Tripolis to 
the north, and Botrus or Botrys to the fo 
DE ‘IFAN, in Geography, a town of Arabia | in the coun- 
try of Yemen; 32 miles north of Sana 
DEIFICATION, in the Pagan Theology, the oat 
ceremony, of deifying their emperors, i, e. of placi 
among the gods, and decrecing divine honours to ‘3 re 
dered i The deification is the fame with selfs 
ae 
cad. Infcript.) 
emperor s fheuld not refufe what the procon- 
the plies geek which both the 
the other received fr € provinces, attefted ra- 
than fe fervitade ome. But the 
nquifhed nations in the arts 
during his lifetime, a place 
among the tutelary deities of Rome. The milder ipa 
of his fucceflor declined fo dangerous an ambition, which 
was never afterwards revived, except by the madnefs of Ca- 
8 ligula 
